Dynamic stories

Speaker: Opher Etzion

Dynamic stories:

Blend of creativity: the author, the reader and the computer

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The traditional story writing

A writer is writing the story

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The traditional story writing

The reader is reading it

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The traditional story writing

The computer is used to store, display, sell, provide information…

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Changing the roles

The reader is part of the authoring

The computer is part of the authoring

The writer becomes a choreographer

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The research goal

Applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to see how it can evolve stories

Checking the way that readers evolve stories

Evolving the role of writer to choreographer

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The elementary one: fill in the gaps

Name of a friend

An adjective

A verb ending in 'ed'

A noun

A verb ending in 'ing'

An emotion

Something funny

The name of some food

Name of a friend

A plural noun

A verb

A noun

An adjective

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Branching story

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Event-driven stories

The reader send events, the computer processes them and controls the story.

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The technology Today it is associated with sensors, stock market, autonomic cars and more…

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Stage one: unsolicited branching

The branching is not in decision points but based on the reader’s wishes – different branching in different times – but still predetermined by the author

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Stage two: select between predetermined events

Here – inference work is increased since context can differ in time.

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Event types

Add participant, kill participant, create meeting, create movement…

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Stage 3: Events created by the reader

Here we can get to situations that the author did not imagine – but the computer takes control

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Looking for collaborators Both in the technology side and in the story

building experimentation side

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